# 1921–22 Yorkshire Cup

The 1921–22 Yorkshire Cup was the fourteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw another new name on the trophy when Leeds won the cup by beating Dewsbury by the score of 11-3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,650. This was the first of Leeds' Yorkshire Cup successes, and they would go on to (eventually) triumph on a record seventeen occasions.

## Background

The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars).

## Competition and results

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but Featherstone Rovers joined for the first time as a league team, after being newly admitted to the league during the close-season. This resulted in one additional entrant, bringing the total up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in only two byes in the first round.

### Round 1

Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Batley | 5-4 | Hunslet | Mount Pleasant |
| 2 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Bradford Northern | 2-14 | Bramley | Birch Lane |
| 3 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Dewsbury | 3-0 | Hull | Crown Flatt |
| 4 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 16-7 | Keighley | Craven Street (off Holderness Road) |
| 5 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Leeds | 11-2 | Huddersfield | Headingley |
| 6 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | York | 3-4 | Wakefield Trinity | Clarence Street |
| 7 | | Halifax | | bye | |
| 8 | | Featherstone Rovers | | bye | |

### Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Batley | 5-5 | Bramley | Mount Pleasant |
| 2 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Dewsbury | 15-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Crown Flatt |
| 3 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Featherstone Rovers | 0-12 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Post Office Road |
| 4 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Leeds | 20-2 | Halifax | Headingley |

### Round 2 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
| R | Wed 2 Nov 1921 | Bramley | 6-0 | Batley | Barley Mow | |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
| 1 | Sat 12 Nov 1921 | Bramley | 4-11 | Leeds | Barley Mow | |
| 2 | Sat 12 Nov 1921 | Dewsbury | 8-3 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Crown Flatt | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Ref |
| | Saturday 26 November 1921 | Leeds | 11-3 | Dewsbury | Thrum Hall | 20000 | 1650 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Leeds | № | Dewsbury |
| | teams | |
| John Roberts | 1 | William Seddon |
| Syd Walmsley | 2 | Percy Bates |
| William Avon Davies | 3 | Evan Rees |
| Jim Bacon | 4 | Eddie Catterall |
| William Hugh Davies | 5 | Joe Lyman |
| Joe Brittain | 6 | Albert Jenkinson |
| Archie Brown | 7 | Ernest Rodgers |
| Bernard Gould | 8 | Thomas Craven |
| John Hardaker | 9 | Albert Dixon |
| Bernard Gould | 10 | Frank Gallagher |
| Robert Boagey | 11 | George Sharples |
| William Pearson | 12 | Robert Birch |
| Billy Ward | 13 | John Leake |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 11 | score | 3 |
| 8 | HT | 3 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Jim Bacon (2) | T | 1 |
| Syd Walmsley (1) | T | |
| | Goals | |
| 1 | G | |
| | Drop Goals | |
| | DG | |
| Referee | | unknown |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

### The road to success

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final | Final |
| Batley | Batley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 4 | Batley | Batley | 5 (0) | | | | | | | |
| | | | Bramley | Bramley | 5 (6) | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 2 | Bramley | Bramley | 5 (6) | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 14 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 14 | | | | Bramley | Bramley | 4 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 11 | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 11 | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 11 | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 2 | Leeds | Leeds | 20 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | | Halifax | Halifax | 2 | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 11 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 3 |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 3 |
| Hull | Hull | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 0 | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 15 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 2 | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 3 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 4 | | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 8 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 3 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 3 | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 19 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |